"Tancheng has fallen?"

After learning about this, Tian Zhang couldn't come back to his senses.

In fact, the soldiers who came to deliver the bad news have already told it very clearly, Tancheng was conquered by the Song general Dai Busheng and his troops, but the question is, when did Dai Busheng lead the army to Tancheng? You must know that during the period from the night of May 18 to the early morning of the 19th, that is, when Tian Zhang first used fraud to force the sun, he was invincible, but he was obviously still forcing the yang city!

Tian Zhang will never be mistaken, after all, when he was defrauded by the defeated Dai Yingzhi sneak attack on the rear of the twenty-mile battalion, so he gave up the plan to continue to attack the Yang Dynasty, and immediately withdrew the army back to the camp.

And today is only the second day of the sixth month, only 12 days apart, so Dai Busheng inexplicably won Tancheng?

When did he lead his army to Tancheng?

Thinking of this, Tian Zhang frowned and asked the envoy of Tancheng who came to report with a serious expression: "When will Dai Busheng attack Tancheng?" ”

The messenger thought for a moment and replied: "If I am not mistaken, it should be noon on the twenty-fifth day of the fifth month." ”

"May 25th?"

Tian Zhang took a slight breath.

You must know that Tancheng is more than 200 miles away from Qiyang City, unless Dai Busheng orders a rapid march to be responsible for setting off from Qiyang City to Tancheng, it will take at least four days, that is, at least before May 21, he will have set off for Tancheng.

But the problem is that the Qi army under Tian Zhang's command in those days has not found any signs of mobilizing troops in Qiyang City - otherwise, if he had learned that Dai Busheng had divided his troops to attack Tancheng, he would have taken the opportunity to try to attack Qiyang.

"Around the 21st of May, how could the Song army secretly transfer the army under the nose of our army? …… Wait!'

His complexion changed slightly, and Tian Zhang couldn't help but gasp again.

Because he suddenly thought that the Song army of Qiangyang did have a chance to transfer the army under the nose of his Qi army, that is, the period from the night of May 18 to the early morning of 19, that is, when he failed to try to force Yang City and withdrew his troops back to the Twenty-mile Battalion.

During that period, the Qi army under his command was busy returning to the camp to rescue, and indeed neglected to monitor the city of Qiangyang - to be exact, it should not be thought at all, who would have thought that after the Song army of Qiangyang repelled his Tian Zhang, he would immediately and decisively divide an army, and asked Dai Busheng to lead this army to attack Tancheng, which was two hundred miles away, so that even he Tian Zhang was kept in the dark.

"It's so decisive! It's so decisive!'

Tian Zhang rubbed his hands together and paced back and forth in the tent.

He couldn't help but think of the disease during the "Battle of Pushui" again, that is, the disease.

At that time, the Song army suddenly retreated and sold his Qi army, but he Tian Zhang also quickly took precautions, but he still couldn't stop Ying Ji - Ying Ji at that time was too decisive, the Song army just retreated on the front foot, he immediately led the army into the political enemies of the Song army, united with the Qin army in front of the Qi army, and launched a two-sided attack on the Qi army.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as Yingjian slows down for a while, he Tian Zhang can definitely change the formation immediately, and will not give the other party a chance to take advantage of it.

And now, the same is true of the "Ying Disease" who forced Yang, while just repelling him Tian Zhang, he immediately took countermeasures, and sent Dai Busheng to quietly lead his troops to attack Tancheng, which is two hundred miles away-Tian Zhang, of course, can understand the other party's intentions!

To put it simply, if the Song army chooses to defend the city, then the area around the city will become the main battlefield of the war between the Qi and Song countries, and the Qi State can gradually enter the Song State by virtue of the superiority in military strength, but the Song State has no way to threaten the Qi State in turn - after all, with him Tian Zhang sitting in Xue Yi and Qiyang, he will never let the Song army of the Yang Dynasty Chang Chang Chang invade the hinterland of the Qi State.

In this case, the Song State had to find another way, choose a road that did not pass through Xue Yi, bypass the main force under his Tian Zhang, and threaten the Qi State from another way.

As a result, the "Ying Disease" that forced the sun hit Tancheng.

I have to say that this time, whether it is Tian Zhang or Meng Zhong, the two can be said to coincide: Meng Zhong knew very well that he could not break through from his brother-in-law Tian Zhang and counterattack to the hinterland of Qi State, so he chose to bypass Tian Zhang and asked Dai Busheng to take Tancheng first, and then go north from Tancheng and invade the hinterland of Qi State; As for Tian Zhang, although he didn't know that the opponent who was competing with him on the other side was actually his "little junior brother" Meng Zhong, he also noticed the difficulty of this opponent, so he decisively opened up the Dushan battlefield, trying to put aside the "Yingji" of Qiyang and directly fight the remaining army of the Song State.

I have to say that in this round, the two righteous brothers coincided.

Since each other doesn't play cards according to common sense, then the simple problem comes.

Let's talk about Meng Zhong first, he never expected that Tian Zhang would bypass him and open up the Dushan battlefield, so that when Dai Busheng took away more than 8,000 troops, there were less than 20,000 troops left in Qiyang, which happened to be almost the same as the forces of Tian Touch and Tian Da sent by Tian Zhang to contain Qiyang, which caused Meng Zhong to guess Tian Zhang's intentions after a few days, he did not dare to act rashly, and was completely tied to Qiyang by Tian Zhang.

Some people may think that in this case, Meng Zhong can give up forcing Yang and return to Pengcheng.

But the problem is, it is not easy to give up the yang.

For example, Pengcheng is the main house, and the Yang is the gate of the courtyard, don't look at the fact that now Tian Zhang has led 40,000 Qi troops to occupy Dushan, but in fact, he just ran in from the fence wall of the courtyard and ran into the courtyard, and the courtyard gate is still locked at the moment, and the owner of "Song Guo" can run outside the courtyard at any time, block Tian Zhang in the courtyard, and then beat Tian Zhang who invaded his yard.

And once Meng Zhong gave up forcing the sun, it was like letting Tian Zhang occupy the courtyard gate, he could enter and exit whenever he wanted, and even beckoned the 80,000 little brothers in Teng County at the moment to rush into the courtyard of the Song Kingdom, and the master of the Song Kingdom had no way to take him at all, so he could only shrink back in the main house of Pengcheng, watching the Qi army go back and forth in the courtyard, and there was almost no means to counter Tian Zhang and the Qi State.

This is the reason why Meng Zhong can't give up forcing Yang: he is stuck in Forcing Yang, so that Tian Zhang can throw a mouse trap and dare not go too deep into the hinterland of the Song Kingdom, so as not to be cut off by Forced Yang.

And because he couldn't give up forcing the sun, Meng Zhong was tied up by Tian Zhang in turn, and could only watch the Qi army under Tian Zhang's command fight with the Song general Li Jun in the Dushan area, but he couldn't reach it.

Speaking of Tian Zhang, I have to say that after Tian Zhang opened up the second battlefield and completely excluded Meng Zhong, the "Yang Forcing Disease", from the main battlefield, his advantage was already great.

Next, he only had to sit back and wait for Tian Jing, the Qi general besieging Teng County, to lead his 80,000 Qi troops south after defeating the Song general Jing Wei.

At that time, Forcing Yang did not dare to act rashly, Tian Jing led an army of 80,000 troops to drive straight in, joined forces with Tian Zhang, and directly attacked Pengcheng, in this case, whether it was a strong Forcing Yang, or Meng Zhong, who was not left behind in the face of Tian Zhang, what role could it play?

This is exactly the reason why Tian Zhang was secretly proud before, thinking that he had defeated the "winning disease" of Forcing Yang.

And the bad thing is that Dai Busheng actually captured Tancheng at this time, what does this mean?

This means that the Song State has the ability to threaten the Qi State!

The worst result is that at the same time as he Tian Zhang attacked Pengcheng, the "Ying Disease" of Forcing Yang also instructed Dai Busheng to attack the hinterland of Qi State, and the armies of the two countries attacked each other's hinterland, burning and looting in the hinterland of the other country, resulting in a situation of defeat for both sides.

This, of course, is the worst possible outcome.

In fact, in all fairness, it is not without the strength of the Qi State to resist Dai Buwei, it is not an exaggeration to say that as long as the King of Qi orders, it is more than enough for the Qi State to put together an army of 100,000 people in a short period of time, but the problem is that Song Wangyan can do the same - even if there are no 100,000 troops, it is still no problem for the Song State to gather 60,000 or 70,000 troops.

And this will lead to a result, the Qi army will not be able to capture Pengcheng in a short time, at most it will make trouble in the Song State, and the Song army that decided to take revenge on the Qi State is even less likely to threaten Linzi, at best, it can only make trouble in the hinterland of the Qi State, so there will be such a situation: that is, neither of the two armies has been able to capture the other party's royal capital in a short period of time, but their own yards have been plowed by the other party's army, turning the world upside down, and no one wants to expect a good harvest this year.

It's embarrassing.

After thinking about it for a while, he sent his general Zou Xi to tell him that he had postponed his plan to attack Pengcheng.

Zou Xi was very puzzled when he heard this, after all, they had just defeated the Song general Li Jun, and this was a good time to wave their army to take Pengcheng, why did they want to postpone the offensive?

So Tian Zhang told Zou Xi the truth: "I thought that this round could defeat the Ying disease of forcing the sun, but I didn't expect that this person's vision was beyond my imagination, and he was secretly planning to counterattack our Qi country early on and force my country to stop this war." …… In the current situation, although our army can attack Pengcheng, Dai Busheng, who occupies Tancheng, can also attack the hinterland of our Qi country, and he may have led his army north at this moment...... If we let this Song army invade the hinterland of our Qi country......"

Tian Zhang frowned and exhaled slightly, looking full of sorrow.

Hearing this, Zou Xi suddenly realized, only to see that after thinking for a while, he suggested in a low voice: "Since you are forcing Yang to divide your troops, why don't you go back and attack Yang again?" ”

"Do you mean the 40,000 Qi troops here?" Tian Zhang said with a somewhat wry smile.

He did not agree with Zou Xi's suggestion.

The reason is very simple, if he leads the 40,000 Qi troops of Dushan here to turn around and fight Qiyang, this is equivalent to giving up the restriction on the Dushan area, which means that the reinforcements of Pengcheng of the Song State can also quickly support Qiyang, which causes the main battlefield to return to the Qiyang area again.

And in this way, it means that Tian Zhang will fight against the Song army commander of Forcing Yang again-oh God, he Tian Zhang just felt that the other party was difficult before, so he gave up attacking Forcing Yang and directly opened up the Dushan battlefield, and now he turned around and went back, wouldn't he overthrow everything he had planned before?

After pondering for a moment, Tian Zhang said to Zou Xi: "Right now, Tian Jing can't be allowed to slowly plot Teng County, you immediately send someone to Teng County, and order Tian Jing to immediately step up the attack on Teng County, now, I and the 'Ying Disease' of Forcing Yang are in an embarrassing situation where they can't advance, retreat and retreat, in this case, he Tian Jing's 80,000 people are the key to this battle, I hope he will capture Teng County as soon as possible and lead the army to help!" ”

"Obey!" Zou Xi hugged his fists, and then asked cautiously, "That...... What to do with that Dai Busheng? ”

Tian Zhang frowned when he heard this.

In all fairness, Dai Busheng's more than 8,000 troops under his command are actually not a big threat to Qi State, and after a few days Linzi learns of the situation, he is fully capable of gathering an army of tens of thousands to expel Dai Busheng, but the problem is that it takes time, if it takes him two months for Qi to draw troops from other counties, then in these two months, Dai Busheng can basically plow the area around the "Judi (County)" - after all, even if he can't attack the city and destroy the farmland and villages outside the city, there will be no problem.

"Tell Tian Da to lead the army to take Tancheng!" Tian Zhang said in a deep voice: "As long as you take Tancheng, you will cut off Dai Busheng's retreat!" If he can't win, he won't dare to lead the army deep into the hinterland of our country! ”

"Obey!" Zou Xi retreated with his fists clenched.

In this way, due to the changes in Tancheng, Tian Zhang had no choice but to suspend the march on Pengcheng.

And this caused Peng Cheng's suspicions.

You must know that since Tian Zhang defeated the Song general Li Jun in late May, Song Wang Yan has been preparing to defend Tian Zhang's army in Pengcheng.

But for some reason, Tian Zhang delayed marching to Pengcheng, which made Song Wangyan feel very strange.

Could it be that Li Jun was ashamed and then brave, first defeated and then won to block Tian Zhang?

Of course it can't be!

Song Wangyan never imagined that Li Jun would be able to block Tian Zhang, and this is also the reason why after Li Jun lost the battle, although Song Wangyan sent someone to reprimand Li Jun angrily, he did not impose a major punishment on Li Jun.

After all, it was Tian Zhang, the only famous general in the six countries of the Central Plains who broke through the Hangu Pass of Qiang Qin!

"What do you think could be the reason?"

Song Wangyan summoned the important minister Hui Ang and asked the latter's opinion.

After thinking for a moment, Hui Ang hesitated and said, "Will it be ...... Is it His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? ”

Song Wang Yan was stunned, and then smiled with a somewhat thoughtful look: "You mean Meng Zhong?" ”

Yes, it is not so much that the crown prince Dai Wu is guarding the forced sun, it is better to simply say that it is Meng Zhong who is guarding the forced yang at present, which Song Wang Yan knows well - after all, with his understanding of the prince Dai Wu, Dai Busheng, and Dai Yingzhi, if the three want to resist Tian Zhang, I am afraid that they are still a little lacking.

Otherwise, these three people would not have been defeated by Tian Zhang in a row when they were in Xue Yi at the beginning, so that they lost the entire Xue Yi in just half a month.

As for Meng Zhong, I have to say that even Song Wangyan didn't expect Meng Zhong to be able to do this, after all, when Meng Zhong wanted to go to the front line to help the crown prince Dai Wu, although Song Wangyan also knew that this kid was a little capable, but he really didn't expect Meng Zhong to be able to block Tian Zhang.

I still remember that a while ago, when he learned that Tian Zhang was unknowingly stationed in Dushan, Hui Ang felt very frightened, and wanted to excuse the crown prince Dai Wu and his brother-in-law Meng Zhong in front of Song Wangyan - after all, it was the Yang who forced Tian Zhang to slip over.

However, in response to this matter, Song Wangyan did not have the slightest sense of annoyance, and even laughed at Hui Ang: "Could it be that the widow is such an ignorant person?" ”

Yes, even though Forcing Yang let Tian Zhang slip in, Song Wangyan was not angry in his heart.

Because he knew very well that if Tian Zhang had the ability to capture Qianyang, how could he possibly pose that Gongyang City would not be attacked, and sneakily lead the army to Dushan? Obviously, I can't take the forced sun, so I will risk going deeper!

Therefore, instead of blaming the crown prince Dai Wu and Meng Zhong, Wang Yan of Song was surprised that Meng Zhong, who was so young, could actually block Tian Zhang.

As for letting Tian Zhang slip into the hinterland, in Song Wangyan's opinion, this is also a helpless thing, after all, the total army of Qiyang is less than 30,000, and the Qi army is claimed to have 300,000 - although after many investigations, it was confirmed that the Qi army was actually only 150,000, but even so it far exceeded the crown prince Dai Wu.

Even after excluding the 80,000 troops of Qi general Tian Jing attacking Teng County, Tian Zhang still had 70,000 troops under his hands, unless he relied on the strong walls of Qiyang City, who could be sure of defeating the 70,000 Qi army led by Tian Zhang himself?

All in all, Meng Zhong has done a good enough job.

As for the rest, since Tian Zhang intended to drive the army to attack Pengcheng, then he Song Wangyan was by no means a coward, and he had already prepared to fight Tian Zhang in Pengcheng.

Unexpectedly, Tian Zhang actually stood still.

What is the reason for this?

And when Song Wangyan and Hui Ang Junchen and others were puzzled by this, Peng Cheng received two urgent letters.

One is from Dai Busheng, who succeeded in the sneak attack on Tancheng, and the other is from Dai Wu, the prince of Qiyang, and these two letters are mainly about the same thing, that is, Dai Busheng has captured Tancheng!

It turned out that after Dai Busheng succeeded in the sneak attack on Tancheng, he immediately sent two teams of messengers, one team to Qiyang, and the other team to Pengcheng, to inform the prince Dai Wu and Song Wangyan of the good news, and the prince Dai Wu, who was in Qiyang, after receiving the good news of Dai Busheng, also immediately sent someone to return to Pengcheng under the reminder of Meng Zhong and reported the matter to Song Wangyan, which led to the two groups of messengers arriving in Pengcheng at the same time.

Dai Busheng actually took Tancheng?!

When he learned the news, Hui Ang suffered a lot, because in his opinion, this matter was too risky - his righteous brother Meng Zhong did not do a good job of assisting the crown prince Dai Wu to guard the forced sun, and actually took the risk to take Tancheng, which was completely contrary to Song Wangyan's order to "defend the forced sun", and it was purely an act of arrogance.

But to his surprise, although Song Wangyan had a strange expression after seeing the two letters, there was more of a smile on his face, although the smile looked really strange.

"I see, I see!"

I saw that under Hui An's gaze, Song Wang Yan held two bamboo slips in his hands, and he was overjoyed: "The widow said that how could Tian Zhang slow down my Pengcheng army, it turned out that Dai Busheng took Tancheng, which made him a little flustered, hahahaha——"

After laughing, he turned his head to Hui Ang who was standing beside him and said, "Hui Ang, your righteous brother, is really bold, not simple, not simple." ”

Hui Ang was afraid that Song Wang Yan would blame Meng Zhong, so he hurriedly said: "The king is too famous, but my brother Meng Zhong is too young to do things......

"Huh."

Song Wangyan raised his hand to interrupt Hui An's words, and then while reading the letter sent by the crown prince Dai Wu, he chuckled and said: "What is the age of being young, and he doesn't know the importance of doing things, and the widow understands him very well...... Oh, it is necessary to make the State of Qi understand the determination of our Song State to not hesitate to break the net and lose both, so as to force the State of Qi to retreat in the face of difficulties and stop attacking our country. Tsk, that's a great thing! ”

It has to be said that the fierce-tempered Song Wangyan greatly appreciated Meng Zhong's tough strategic approach, and in contrast, it seemed that the suggestion of "it is better to submit to the Qi State" suggested by some courtiers in the court made him feel disdainful and extremely angry.

In the final analysis, Song Wangyan is not Song Jue Chengjun, and he can't do anything to make a compromise for the Qi State Committee, even if now that he Song State has essentially lost Zhao State, the once strongest ally.

"The current situation is that Meng Zhong was temporarily tied to Tianzhang and did not dare to act rashly, but in the same way, Tian Zhang, who was stationed in Dushan, did not dare to act rashly......"

When explaining the current battle situation to Hui An, Song Wangyan's expression was a little strange, after all, the current battle situation is really delicate, who would have thought that Meng Zhong and Tian Zhang did not play cards according to common sense, and as a result, they both put themselves in a dilemma.

Of course, instead of blaming Meng Zhong, Song Wangyan did not mean to blame Meng Zhong, on the contrary, he greatly appreciated Meng Zhong's foresight in "making Dai Busheng sneak attack Tancheng", after all, if Tancheng had not fallen into the hands of his Song State, Tian Zhang would have hit Pengcheng a long time ago, and would he honestly stay in Dushan?

The question is how to break the game.

After thinking for a moment, Song Wangyan pondered and ordered: "Hui An, immediately start reinforcing Teng County, and at the same time send an order to Jing Yuan, and order Jing Yu to defend Teng County to the death." …… Tell him that if he dares to lose Teng County easily, the widow will never spare him! ”

"......" Hui Ang secretly glanced at Song Wangyan, and secretly praised in his heart.

praised the monarch of the Song State in front of him as a military general, and saw through the key point of the current entire battle situation at a glance, that is, the 80,000 Qi troops currently besieging Teng County.

According to common sense, at present, the Qi general Tian Jing has surrounded Teng County for nearly 20 days, and he should not lose his previous achievements, so it is not difficult to guess that Tian Zhang is temporarily holding his troops and preparing to lead the 80,000 troops south after Tian Jing takes Teng County.

At that time, whether these 80,000 Qi troops were besieging Qiyang or assisting Tian Zhang in attacking Pengcheng, they would break the current stalemate between the armies of Qi and Song in one fell swoop.

Therefore, seeing the key Song Wangyan, he immediately changed his mind - once Song Wangyan planned to give up Teng County if necessary and let Jing Yi retreat to Nanhu (Weishan Lake), but at present, Teng County cannot be lost for the time being, and only by letting Jing Wei drag Tian Jing's 80,000 troops did Tian Zhang of Dushan not dare to act rashly.

As for the rest, Song Wangyan has no countermeasures for the time being.

“…… Find a way to make a detour to reinforce the sun, but other than that, we'll just wait and see for the time being. I hope that Meng Zhong's kid can surprise the widow ......"

With a long breath, Song Wangyan said with some melancholy.

Hearing this, Hui Ang nodded silently: "That's all." ”

On the same day, Peng Cheng immediately sent two groups of messengers, one of which went north to "Pei County", and then crossed the river from "Pei County" to Teng County, ordering Sima Jingyu, who was currently stationed in Teng County, to defend Teng County; Another group of messengers set out from Pengcheng and went east to bypass Dushan, Longshan, and Zhishan, and went to Qiyang, affirming Meng Zhong's strategy of "breaking the net with Qi Yu".

In other words, the Song Wangyan authorized Meng Zhong to allow the latter to use troops in the hinterland of Qi even when the hinterland of the Song State was attacked by the Qi army, so that the Qi State could taste the same taste.

During this period, the Qi general Tian Da received an order from Tian Zhang to prepare to lead his army to capture Tancheng.

At this time, Meng Zhong had long prevented the Qi army from seizing Tancheng because he had also received Dai Busheng's letter, so when the Qi general Tian Da tried to return to Tancheng, Meng Zhong sent Dai Yingzhi to intercept it, forcing Tian Da to retreat.

Seeing that Forcing Yang City suddenly turned from defense to attack, Tian Zhang was secretly frightened, he knew very well that Forcing Yang City did this in order to drag down his main force, so that Tian Da could not capture Tancheng, so as not to cut off Dai Busheng's retreat.

『…… I hope that Tian Jing will take Teng County as soon as possible and lead the army to help, otherwise this battle will really be difficult to fight."

After learning the news that Tian Da was forced to retreat, Tian Zhang thought with a headache.

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